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Old 03-17-2011, 07:35 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by stonetools View Post
IOW, with no DRM, many more honest users would be tempted to steal and would steal e books. You should understand that mobile read forum users are a tiny percentage of ebook users, so you can't generalize from them. DRM does stop the vast majority of casual ebook readers from just stealing ebooks.

Did you actually read the rest of my post? The entire premise of my argument is that MobileRead ≠ All eReader Users.

I shall condense it into one sentence for you: While DRM does prevent casual sharing among non-tech people, that lack of technical know-how means that the bizarre problems DRM can cause are very difficult for them to solve, thus resulting in them rejecting ebooks as a concept.
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